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atpp-1141	Pournantzi, Vasiliki; Zacharos, Konstantinos; Shiakalli, Maria	Investigating Pre-School Children's Ability to Formulate Logical Arguments	2016	21	.pdf	application/pdf	8578	529	58	Our data showed three types of argumentation children used in order to justify their answers: We defined the first type as “non structured argumentation” consisting of the following characteristics: - Simple sentences without argumentation (“just because”, “I do not know”, “Because I believe so”) or idiosyncratic answers without argumentation support, - sentences leading to no conclusion and, often, presented as a type of internal monologue, - sentences showing that the child had not realized the cause-and-effect relation between situations, ANALYTIC TEACHING AND PHILOSOPHICAL PRAXIS VOLUME 36 (2015-16) 95 - sentences showing that children could not use logical relations such as “if p, then q” nor could they argue on hypothetical reasoning, - sentences showing that children did not realize deductive reasoning as a single logical system, - sentences showing that children had not yet familiarized with types of inductive reasoning and did not lead to any generalizations. There is also a growing interest for the introduction of school subjects defined as Philosophy for Children (Colom et al. 2014; Gasparatou, and Kampeza 2012; Lipman et al. 1980).	cache/atpp-1141.pdf	txt/atpp-1141.txt